James Rising is a researcher at the School of Marine Science & Policy at the University of Delaware
He studies and develops frameworks to model the feedback loops between environmental and human systems. He hopes to use new technologies to help communities act on
those insights to support sustainability and promote social justice.
Prior to joining UD, James was a researcher at the Grantham Research Institute at LSE and held postdoctoral positions at the Energy & Resources Group at UC Berkeley and the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University's program in Sustainable Development. He previously taught within MIT's Experimental Study Group and at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering. He has also had a career as a software developer, working with over a dozen companies on audio and video processing, social networks, and artificial intelligence.